ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL by Brent Wiggans |
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FROM GREEN CLAMBERING
by Lance Calabrese From green clambering upward rivulets break into a delta upon an eave that several lilacs surmount the tiled roof with little feet in stucco pores lichen like? without a trellised wall as if my sealed window outward reached eyes vaulting rooftop rooftop toward the curved arm of a steel bridge blue painted half-spanning the pane-glass-snippet bay to an out-of-frame island's upturned palm merging now with September's lifeless vista through trumpet bloom's foreground interloping. Again the tiled patchwork draws the gaze like vibrant flesh sun tinctured and swaddled warm amid a rising tap-clop of a heel and toe a city's Springlike wakening? these trills struggle upward from invisible feet on pocked cement echoing the distance where a split river stops fingers thrumming this sill and into the sea empties amasses.
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MECONOPSIS PUNICEA by Jarrett Bywaters
A GRAY SPACE |
in which to dream by Kevin Heaton While you sleep, I hover with bats in counterfeit rays of light, gathering remnants secreted from the tumescent underbelly of suburban privelege. Plundering crows beak-nip eyelids from the impending horizon, and caw the feckless approach of a lustful, infringing juggernaut, heckling me from my night post. Tiny, blithesome wing powers sandman frenzy from my eyes with melatonin yawn. They flutter- whisk spider blood from my healing, and exorcise apnea from pleas for forgetfulness. We tryst on goose down behind silver-foiled sun; where pilfered dreams cache, and better natured angels daybreak. |
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